Here are ten of my favorite Gore Vidal books, ranked without regard for their date of publication: You can’t ignore him, though: both as a literary giant and an American political commentator, he has few equals. You don’t have to love Gore Vidal, you don’t even have to agree with him. These are sometimes directed at people he doesn’t like: over the years, his views on politics and sexual liberation have made him quite a few enemies. Vidal is especially known for telling a whole, complex joke in only half-a-dozen words. You don’t need to go digging for symbolism in them, even if he doesn’t bother to dumb down his themes or his acerbic wit. The best novels by Gore Vidal, by contrast, are fantastically easy to read simply as entertaining stories. Some of his work, like his essays on literary criticism, are impenetrably dense even to people who are acquainted with their subject matter. Thompson, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. He managed to do just that for over five decades, placing him in the same league as American authors like Tom Wolfe, Hunter S.
Flamboyant, educated, haughty, charming, outspoken, political, dignified, observant, broad-minded, funny: Gore Vidal was a man born to ruffle feathers and challenge convention.
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